Sir Lionel Tomkins whose death is reported was one of the most brilliant detective ofoers ever produced by the Indian Police Service. He was at the head of the C.D. of the Punjab in the troublous days of the Ghadr Conspiracy and the Reboliion. of April 1919, Fiction writers would find it dificult to make Mr, Tomkins as he was then fit into their specifications. A quiet studious-looking man of middle height, spare of frame and fair as to.the small but curly moustache, apt to play quite useful game of tennis, he might have been anything but' a fearless and ruthless police officer who proved the terror of terrorists and effective ly stamped out revolutionary crime in the "Punjab of his day. Many Sikhs in Shanghai must, remember Tomkins Sahib who was as modest as he was competent. In 1922. rose to be the administrative head of the Police Force in his Province and he retired in 1926, but it is probable that hho regarded that preferment as child's play to the grim labours of the ten years which preceded It.
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